Field-pence



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SENECA H. BENNETT, OF BELLEVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

FIELD-FENCE.

Specification of Letters Patent No.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SENECA H. BENNETT, of Belleville, in the county ofMifflin and State of Pennsylvania, have invented an Improved PortableFence Easily Taken Down, Moved, and Readjusted; and I do hereby declarethe following to be a full and exact description thereof, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings andthe letters of referencemarked thereon.

The nature of my invention consists in a combination post set in a crosssill and firmly secured to its place by the upper rail of the fence.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my improvement IWill proceed to describe its construction.

No. l is the sill supporting the fence and capable of being moved atpleasure. Nos. 2 and 3 are combination posts with a doveta-il-havng fournotches cut in their sides 16,369, dated January 18, 1857.

for the accommodation of the four lower rails and a mortise in the topfor the upper one. No. 4 are the rails set and secured in notches of theposts Q and 3 and firmly secured by the top rail being let into themortise in the top of the posts.

No. 5 Eig. 2 is a section of the combination post and No. 6 Fig. 3 isthe sill capable of being moved at pleasure and supporting the fence.

Vhat I claim as my improvement and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

The combination posts secured firmly in their places by the top rails ofthe fence being let into the mortises in the top of the posts assubstantially set forth in the foregoing specification.

S. H. BENNETT. litnesses JOSEPH HOAR,

W. C. NELSON.

